Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

Firstkeep the peace within yourself, then you can alsobring peace to others.

Don't wrestlea pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

The hardest thing to disguise is you feelings when you put a lot of relatives on the train for home.

Pleasure is the sincerest compliment.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.

Trust begets trust and untrust begets untrust. It'snatural.

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.